HKR characters and higher twisted sectors
Algebraic Topology
2007-05-23 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
This is the writeup of an expository talk. It is intended as an introduction to the work of Hopkins, Kuhn, and Ravenel on generalized group characters, which seems to fit very well with the theory of what physicists call higher twisted sectors in the theory of orbifolds.
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@article{arxiv.math/0208235,
title = {HKR characters and higher twisted sectors},
author = {Jack Morava},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0208235},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk at the ChengDu (Sichuan) ICM satellite conference on orbifolds, August 2002; Revised, with some confusion about homotopy quotients eliminated. To appear in the Proceedings of a conference on spin curves and Gromov-Witten invariants, ed A. Vaintrob et al, to appear in Contemporary Math